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Up the River (1930) More at IMDbPro »

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• "Up the River (Prison 'College' Song)"
  (1930) (uncredited)
  Music by James F. Hanley
  Lyrics by Joseph McCarthy
  Played during the opening credits
  Sung by the inmates at the show and the baseball game
  
  
  
• "Brighten the Corner Where You Are"
  (1913) (uncredited)
  Music by Charles H. Gabriel
  Played by the Brotherhood of Hope marching band
  
  
  
• "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
  (1896) (uncredited)
  Music by John Philip Sousa
  Played by the prison marching band twice
  
  
  
• "Girl of My Dreams"
  (1928) (uncredited)
  Written by Sunny Clapp
  Sung a cappella by an off-screen chorus during lights out
  
  
  
• "St. Louis Blues"
  (1914) (uncredited)
  Music by W.C. Handy
  Played by the prison band with Bob Burns on stage playing the bazooka
  
  
  
• "M-O-T-H-E-R, a Word That Means the World to Me"
  (1915) (uncredited)
  Music by Theodore Morse
  Lyrics by Howard Johnson
  Sung by Steve Pendleton and others in a quartet, at the prison show
  
  
  
• "Frühlingslied (Spring Song)"
  (1842) (uncredited)
  Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  Played during the prison show
  
  
  
• "When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home"
  (1859) (uncredited)
  (Also called "Seeing Nellie Home")
  Composed and arranged by John Fletcher
  Lyrics by Frances Kyle
  Sung by people on the haywagon
  
  
  
• "The Prisoner's Song (If I Had the Wings of an Angel)"
  (1924) (uncredited)
  Music and Lyrics by Guy Massey
  Sung by the twins, Elizabeth Keating and Helen Keating, on the haywagon
  Reprised by an unspecified singer on the radio
  
  
  
• "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"
  (uncredited)
  Traditional
  Sung by people on the haywagon
  

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